Sensitive determination of gaseous mercury in air by two-stage gold amalgamation and cold vapor atomic absorption spectometry

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 633-638

  Talebi, Seyed Morteza ^a   Karimian, Reza ^a   Abedi, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cold vapour atomic absorption spectrometry; Determination of mercury; Gaseous mercury; Two stage amalgamation

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

EID: 4143151947     PISSN: 10184619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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